How do you ensure that you discover the best players among all those fanatic boys and girls? Kampong is the largest club in the Netherlands and the trophy cabinet is filled with many national and European titles. So, the dream of all those young hockey players and their parents is hardly surprising.
Alex Verga is manager of training and development Top Hockey at Kampong. We make use of different pillars: respect, responsibility, intensity and club feeling. Behaviour is the most important aspect for me. A player might be good at hockey, but if his or her behaviour is not right, they will not make it in elite sport. A player on his or her way to the top can abruptly take a completely different direction. Previously, scouting was solely based on selection trainings, but with the current model, he can follow the players throughout the year.
As a scout, he never lets potential candidates know that they have been followed. But they do, of course, sense that they are being watched. If it leads to nothing, then obviously, that is a bitter pill. Fortunately, we always have a place in the lower team, and then we continue to observe them. Sport is harsh in that sense, but it is honest. Government organisations secure products and services via tenders.
Suppliers are often eager to win contracts. Who receives the contract? They supervise the procurement process and ensure that it proceeds in an objective and fair manner. Dependent on the size of the purchase, a public organisation is obliged to issue the procurement in accordance with the Public Procurement Act.
In the case of government procurement, you must state very clearly which requirements something must satisfy and that ultimately determines who receives the contract. Your feeling of personal preference does not play any role in that unless you clearly include beforehand how this will influence the procedure.
The selection procedure starts with a procurement plan. This contains the expected costs, desired period of procurement and the number of potential suppliers in the market. Reasons for exclusion and selection criteria are also drawn up. The opposite is also true: if you know that there are just three suppliers in the Netherlands, then you will not apply unduly harsh criteria because then you will have nobody left. Uncertainty is baked into our day to day life, but nothing makes us feel this uncertainty quite like a crisis.
As it turns out, there are people out there that we regularly rely upon when shit gets real. People that get called in when things start to unravel, that find themselves shrouded in uncertain environments every day, and who know exactly what to do in a crisis. The men and women of our armed forces are accustomed to living and working with uncertainty every single day.
For them, it is the most basic and primal question that they often lack certainty over; will I survive the day? In the years since, VUCA has been adopted and become common terminology within large organisations, used to describe the rapidly changing business environments within which they operate. And what a wild ride it has been for these companies. Never before has the business landscape been more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous than it has been over the last 30 years.
Fuelled by rapid advancements in technology, continuously evolving customer expectations, and increased competition brought on by lower barriers to entry, companies have had the past 30 years to perfect how to respond to significant changes in their business. With all of this planning and preparation you would think they would be well placed to respond to change, no matter how significant. Yet many of these organisations have been found wanting, only realising now that instead of having transformed into an agile leopard they are actually just a lumbering elephant dressed up in leopard print.
Death is the great equalizer, and no matter who you are, when you are staring down the barrel of your own survival you only have two real options; adapt or die. In the past week alone I have seen many examples of companies choosing to adapt rather than die. Gin distilleries have become hand sanitiser companies , restaurants have become catering companies , and a student internship company has become a labour exchange marketplace.
Necessity is truly proving to be the mother of invention, with the art of the pivot never being more prevalent than it is now. Unfortunately I have also seen many companies choosing to die rather than adapt. And yes, although it may seem harsh to label it a choice, that is exactly what it is. The choice to act or do nothing, the choice to experiment or ignore, the choice to persevere or quit.
So what is it that differentiates companies that choose to adapt from those that choose to die? Examples of antifragility can be seen in our muscles growth response to resistance training, our physical antibody response to vaccinations, the aviation industries safety response to an airline crash, and the mythical Hydra monster that could regenerate multiple heads whenever one head was cut off. Whilst our ability to perceive stress and disorder in a positive light may seem unnatural at first, our reaction is something which is in our means to control.
Turkey has launched commercial flights to Somalia, a bold move. It has opened more than a dozen new embassies in Africa in the past decade and is getting enmeshed in the politics of the Horn of Africa.
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